Large-scale fungal diversity assessment in the Andean Yungas forests reveals strong community turnover among forest types along an altitudinal gradient

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2452-2472

  Geml, Jõzsef ^a,b   Pastor, Nicolás ^c   Fernandez, Lisandro ^c   Pacheco, Silvia ^d   Semenova, Tatiana A ^a   Becerra, Alejandra G ^c   Wicaksono, Christian Y ^b   Nouhra, Eduardo R ^c  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d Sistema de Información Geográfica Ambiental   (Argentina)

Author keywords

biodiversity; fungi; Ion Torrent sequencing; metabarcoding

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ALDER; ALTITUDE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ION TORRENT SEQUENCING; METABARCODING; MICROBIOLOGY; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; ION TORRENT SEQUENCING; METABARCODING;

ALNUS; ALTITUDE; ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84900827071     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12765     Document Type: Article

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